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VIDEO: Sunningdale Agreement 50 Years On

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on May 30, 2024, 11:52 am

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Brian Faulkner resigned as chief executive of the short-lived Northern Ireland Executive, and the Sunningdale Agreement collapsed on 28 May 1974. You can now watch back a series of panel discussions that were held in Ulster University to look back at Sunningdale on Tuesday, the 5oth anniversary of its collapse. Session One – The Negotiations – Sean Donlon, Noel Dorr, Lord Paul Bew, Prof Paul Arthur (chair) Session Two – Perspectives on 1973/4 Power-sharing NI Executive – Hugh Logue, Chris …

Sir Hugh Orde speaking about the PSNI and policing (Hume Foundation at Ulster University)

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on November 18, 2022, 12:08 am

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Read or watch former PSNI chief constable Sir Hugh Orde’s comments while delivering the second annual Seamus Mallon Memorial Lecture for the Hume Foundation last night at Ulster University’s Belfast campus.

Lord Patten: “… the problem at heart is not the sausages you get from Sainsbury’s but the porkies that we all get … from Downing Street”

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on June 24, 2021, 12:18 am

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Chris Patten delivering inaugural Seamus Mallon Lecture for Hume Foundation over Zoom

Lord Patten delivered the inaugural Seamus Mallon Lecture this evening, organised by the The John & Pat Hume Foundation. His talk looked back at his time as a direct rule minister: “An appointment to the Northern Ireland Office was often compared with being sent by a Communist Party general secretary in the Soviet Union to manage a power station in Siberia.” He recalled some of his encounters with Seamus Mallon, wishing that there were: “more political leaders in Northern Ireland …

David O’Sullivan: The EU at 70 – still going strong?

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on May 10, 2021, 10:20 pm

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Watch back this evening’s Hume Foundation inaugural European Spirit of Peace Lecture, delivered by David O’Sullivan (former EU ambassador to the US) which looked at the EU 70 years on and asked whether it was going strong. He had cautionary words for those conflating the Irish constitutional issue with practical aspects of the NI Protocol which he said was “unhelpful” and could “destabilise many in the Unionist community”.

“We can begin with the empowerment of civic society, by bringing about participative and deliberative democracy”

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on December 16, 2020, 11:39 am

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Maureen Hetherington spoke about the need to empower civic society and bring about participative and deliberative democracy in her contribution to a panel on A Shared Home Place – the Unfinished Business of Reconciliation, recorded last week in Derry’s Guildhall and organised by the John & Pat Hume Foundation.

Might a Peace Plan be part of the Unfinished Business of Reconciliation?

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on December 2, 2020, 10:14 pm

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Given the unfinished business of reconciliation, does Northern Ireland need a Peace Plan? That was the proposal by Dympna McGlade who spoke at a Hume Foundation event last week. You can watch back the hour long discussion.

Watch the launch of the John and Pat Hume Foundation today at 11am…

Brian O'Neill on November 13, 2020, 10:23 am

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A foundation in the name of former Nobel Peace Prize Winner, John Hume, and his wife Pat Hume, will launch today at 11am. The John and Pat Hume Foundation will seek to advance non-violent and peaceful change-making for present and future generations in divided societies and support and inspire leadership for peaceful change at home and across the world through a series of outreach and support programmes. The Foundation’s Leadership and Board is composed of people, from diverse backgrounds and communities, …